Women will mostly be affected but statistics show that the amount of men who are being diagnosed with anorexia is increasing. They will also have a BMI measurement of 17.5 or less, where the measurement for someone of average weight should be around, but under, 25. Someone will be diagnosed as anorexic if their body weight is more than 15% lower than it should be for their height, sex and age. How they see their own body is often in contrast to what it actually looks like people who have anorexia will commonly complain that they are too fat when, in fact, their weight is dangerously low. Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder: Where the individual has a general issue with food not caused by a medical condition, which means that they do not have enough nutrients in their dietīelieved to be the most common of eating disorders, anorexia nervosa (literally meaning ‘loss of appetite through nervous origins’) is characterised by an individual trying to keep their body weight as low as possible by dieting, vomiting, exercising excessively or using laxatives.Rumination disorder: Where the individual will not swallow food and spits it out after chewing it.Pica: Where an individual feels a compulsion to eat unusual substances such as foam or soil.These are the ones that will be specifically focused on for the content of this unit however, it is worth knowing that there are other types of eating disorder that are not as well known: It is a common mistake for people to think that there are only three types of eating disorder because these may be the ones that they have heard of the most in the media: However, the Cambridge English Dictionary defines an eating disorder as: “a mental illness in which people eat far too little or too much food and are unhappy with their bodies.” Types of Eating Disorders
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM) defines each individual type of eating disorder separately and, as such, does not provide a general definition for this type of mental illness. However, this figure is likely to be higher because many cases of eating disorders will go undetected and therefore undiagnosed. Of these, it is estimated that up to 75% are female and 25% are male. It is estimated that in the UK, approximately 1.6 million people live with an eating disorder. Unlike some mental illnesses, eating disorders can have a serious effect on an individual’s physical health as well as their mental health, and for this reason early identification of the signs of an eating disorder is beneficial in being able to treat it successfully. People will commonly experience at least one of these alongside a diagnosis of an eating disorder. Eating disorders can lead to other mental illnesses such as stress, anxiety, depression and phobias. An eating disorder is a mental illness, which means that an individual will have a very complex relationship with food that is likely to be out of control.
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